Can China innovate its way out of a prolonged economic growth slowdown? Shaun Rein, managing director of the China Market Research Group, believes so. In his new book, “The End of Copycat China – The Rise of Creativity, Innovation and Individualism in Asia”, he argues that China will start innovating now because it has to – and that it didn’t before simply because it didn’t need to. That’s an interesting theory, but is he right?
中國能否通過創新走出長期經濟成長放緩的困境?中國市場研究集團(China Market Research)的董事總經理雷小山(Shaun Rein)相信可以。在他的新書《山寨中國的終結:亞洲創造力、創新力和個人主義的崛起》(The End of Copycat China – The Rise of Creativity, Innovation and Individualism in Asia)中,雷小山認爲,中國如今將開啓創新之路,因爲它不得不如此,而過去之所以沒這麼做,也僅僅是因爲還不需要。這是種有趣的理論,但他說得對嗎?